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Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys

Surviving Brooklyn's Colombo Mob

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Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys

By: Craig McGuire, Carmine Imbriale - contributor
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale—a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family.

Now in hiding, Imbriale teams up with true-crime veteran writer Craig McGuire to take you inside the Thirteenth Avenue rackets at the height of their violence. This is the jarring account of his lawless lifestyle culminating in a gang war in South Brooklyn, from which he emerges a survivor.

From his first arrest at fifteen for robbing a Coney Island pimp to surviving multiple assassination attempts, Imbriale offers up dozens of too-good-to-be-true tales featuring some of the most notorious gangsters, as well as other lions and lackeys of La Cosa Nostra, and details a beef with none other than Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa Sr.

A young streetwise hustler, Imbriale thought he found loyalty, a brotherhood. Instead, he descended into a world of treachery and deceit, where your best friend is your executioner, and no one gets out alive. But no one expected him to become the domino that helped bring it all down.

Contains mature themes.

©2022 Craig McGuire (P)2022 Tantor Americas Organised Crime Social Sciences State & Local True Crime United States Violence in Society Survival
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I bought this on the recommendation of legendary NYC detective Tommy Dades. The story is entertaining, wildly entertaining in parts, and as promised by Dades, very funny in certain areas too. It follows the same path as any other street tale, a tough and charismatic kid falls in with the neighbourhood tough guys, who ends up realising there is no loyalty among thieves, and most importantly, takes no personal responsibility for his own anti-social behaviours. It's an interesting angle on the Colombo family, and cool to hear him speak about the Sessas and Joe Cantelupo from a street perspective. The one downside was the audio reading, the guy has a 15/10 voice and 2/10 for Italian pronunciations. How do you get Lucchese wrong in a mafia book, AND the author/subject's name wrong and change it throughout? To quote the proud old neighbourhood woman Imbriale mentions in the book ... "Disgrazia!". Overall, I'd recommend this if you're a mob book fan. 4/5. - Andrew Paskin

Entertaining mafia tale

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